On Tuesday 28 October 2014, Janko Mihelić wrote: > > If you want to formulate a formal mathematical rule for where the > > node for a bay is best placed: Place it so the variance of the > > distance of the node to the bay's shores is minimized. Most > > existing nodes comply with this rule remarkably well. > > What's the best place for the node in Guantanamo Bay? Is the current > node well placed?
I'd say it is. Note the algorithm i sketched in its simple form would seriously underestimate the bay size due to the peninsula in the middle - same problem as small islands in the bay which i already mentioned. It is fairly easy though to detect and fix this (by making use of the fact that a bay is 'mostly surrounded by land'). On a general note the established tagging conventions are of course not well suited for tropical coastal landforms dominated by mangrove. Technically you might also consider the inner bay a lagoon rather than a bay. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
